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The Brill Septuagint Studies Collection (2 Vols.) combines the premier introductory text on the Septuagint with thirty-eight collected essays of Emanuel Tov, one of the Septuagint's leading scholars. Together, they function to provide an essential starting point for studying …
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The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, was the ‘Bible’ of the early Christian Church. This is a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the translation and development of the Septuagint. Professor Hengel first traces the history of the …
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…problems between real history and historical fiction, the genres and purposes of the two books, and the literary and religious motives of the tales. Also dealt with are textual problems such as the Greek text in the Septuagint vs. Hebrew and Aramaic Tobit-fragments from Qumran. Save more …
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…Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Herod, Josephus, and Nero. In this meticulously researched volume, Alexander also chronicles the dissolution of Babylon, the development of the Septuagint, the rise of the Roman Empire, and the destruction of Jerusalem. With the Logos Bible Software …
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…(Daniel 9:3–19). He also examines prayers from Second Temple literature, including texts from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the writings of Philo and Josephus, and texts from Qumran. Matlock also discusses the Septuagintal versions of the five biblical prayers and Targum Jonathan’s …
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…translations of the Hebrew scriptures. The Targums are important source documents that can be compared with the Septuagint in terms of their significance for doing text criticism, understanding the history of biblical interpretation, and studying the New Testament use of Hebrew scriptures. Many …
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…Scrolls. One of the translators of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, he has authored numerous articles and has served as editor of the Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, and served on the editorial boards of the Catholic Biblical …
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…Ezra by professor Leander B. Chalice, based on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, and codex Leningradensis, is the excellent fruit of a painstaking task towards a better understanding of the Word of God. This is highly recommended to all Bible students as a tool on how any part of …
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…study. These texts provide historical and cultural insight as well as linguistic information to use in one’s study. The English-Greek Reverse Interlinear of the NRSV Apocryphal Texts is an alignment between the apocryphal portions of the NRSV and the Septuagint (LXX). It aims to assist in …
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…"Josephus, the Letter of Aristeas, and the Septuagint," by André Pelletier "Josephus and I Maccabees," by Isaiah M. Gafni "The Role of women in the Hasmonean Dynasty," by Joseph Sievers "Josephus and Nicolaus of Damascus," by Ben Zion Wacholder "The Sadducees in Josephus," by Günther Baumbach …
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…Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism Contents “The Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation” by James L. Kugel “Inner-biblical Interpretation” by Yair Zakovitch “Translators as Interpreters: Scriptural Interpretation in the Septuagint” by Martin Rösel “The …
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…Hebrew Scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint. He is one of the three General Editors of the Scrolls International Publication Project and Chief Editor of the Biblical Scrolls. John W. Wright (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Theology and Christian Scripture …
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…Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs and Esther was the subject of rabbinical argument in the first three centuries A.D., while in the sixteenth century the Reformers and the Church of Rome clashed over the authority of the Apocrypha, found in the Christian Septuagint manuscripts. The discovery of …
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…include a committee of translators from both sides of the Atlantic led by Max Margolis. The 1917 Tanakh takes into account the Septuagint, the Targums, the Peshitta, the Vulgate, and numerous other translation traditions. It offers a uniquely Jewish translation for the English-speaking …
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…an invaluable resource for all those interested in the Pseudepigrapha. Individual Titles The History of the Second Temple Period The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Problem of Its Canon How the Temple Thinks: Identity and Social Cohesion in Ancient Judaism Sirach 1 …
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